reading the comments never ends well

[healingmirth]

So, apparently Aja (bookshop, yes? this is that Aja?) is the "fandom" reporter at the daily dot, whatever that means. And about ten minutes ago, I was prepared to be irate (hyperbole!) over one case of "I do not think that word means what you think it means" and some sloppy editing, but I have apparently been beaten to the punch of the entire irate (actual fact!) quota for the internet by the commenters on a different article.

I have to say, I am a little baffled by the number of people commenting on an article about One Direction tinhatting who are using their facebook logins to do so. Brave new world, good lord.

ETA: having read more of the comments, either someone posted talking points to come yell at Aja with, or their hivemind is epic

And also, welcome to the internet, person who commented "awkward i didnt even know this showed up on my fb feed omg"

I feel so old.

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[ruric]

eleveninches (a pal of Aja) posted about the articles on her LJ in a "Oh kids, we've been there and done that" kind of way and also partly to mock Aja too for poking a big fandom and getting dog piled.

The comments there are hilarious too, consisting of many folks who've been around for a while and remember the insanity that was tinhatting in LoTrips & Wincest.

There's also some bemused horror expressed that the kids don't realise Tumblr is public and you can't really clutch your pearls and shriek invasions of privacy when someone lifts a quote from your publically posted words on the web! and that replying to things with a Facebook (which propsective employers will google and may well deny your employment depending on what they find) is so not a good idea.

*hands*

I genuinely thought kids these days were so much more internet savvy that the 1D fans appear to be!

[healingmirth]

That's awesome. I've never been close enough to a fandom's tinhats to be part of actual arguments, but I can imagine that there are come comment/discussion threads in the mists of time that are similarly epic.

I don't quite understand how one can take for granted that we're all connected all the time, and not get that that means we're all connected, all the time, but like I said, I'm old. My brain has had time to deal with this shit.

It's not like we don't know, both scientifically and anecdotally, that adolescent judgment is suspect. This is what is literally horrifying to me about the kids that I work with having Facebook (and twitter, and tumblr, and whatever) accounts.

Also, I would never do this because it is a terrifying prospect and I don't know the first thing about 1D, but I sort of want to round up a cadre of older-school LJ fans and infiltrate to try to launch a "polyamory solves everything" solution. Seriously, we can all get along. Dear fandom: WE CAN REBUILD IT. (them?) WE HAVE THE TECHNOLOGY.